Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History & Coins

Comprising a substantial hoop with wide, angled shoulders, bezel set with an oval orange carnelian intaglio engraved with a stylised bird holding a large branch in its beak; a marriage. 9.02 grams, 25.48 mm overall, 19.41 x 16.50 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O 1/2, USA 7 1/4, Europe 15.61, Japan 15)



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Broad and flat with low sidewall, sharply carinated rim; repaired. 1.25 kg, 39.4 cm



From the private collection of Mr Brian Edwards, New Malden, Surrey, UK, formed from the late 1970s-early 1980s; thence by descent. Accompanied by the original collector's data sheet with reference no.A61.

Featuring a tapering round-section handle with a pointed finial, the other end discoid and pierced through the upper part. 9.55 grams, 12.1 cm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Comprising a piriform body with ribbing, a narrow foot, a short neck and an everted rim, a strap handle to the rear. 268 grams, 17.4 cm



From the private collection of Mr Brian Edwards, New Malden, Surrey, UK, formed from the late 1970s-early 1980s; thence by descent. Accompanied by the original collector's data sheet with reference no.A114.

Plano-convex in section with intaglio facing figure of Minerva with a spear in each hand; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 0.80 grams, 14.03 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Irregular sheet-bronze fragment with repoussé figure of Athena standing wearing a long robe and gripping the shaft of a spear, wearing a Corinthian-style crested helmet and sporting a gorgoneion at the chest. 1.67 grams, 83 mm



From the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.

Shallow body with flat rim and low basal ring. 80 grams, 10.8 cm wide



From the collection of a late Yorkshire, UK, gentleman.

Each with a hollow-formed crescentic hoop, piriform plaque with inset glass panel and granulated border, hollow-bulb cluster beneath with three applied piriform plaques and granule finial. 9.26 grams total, 37-38 mm



Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12393-226929.

As a result of the expansion of the Roman Empire, jewellery became more and more elaborate in its designs and materials used, such as precious and semi-precious gemstones. This pair of earrings represent a highly baroque evolution of the boat-shaped type, already visible in Etruscan jewellery and certainly in Roman jewellery, as demonstrated by the excavations of Herculaneum. Using the body of the boat-shaped earrings, the late Imperial artist added decorative clusters and applications of pearled borders and precious stones, according to the taste of Eastern Hellenism rooted for centuries in the provinces of the Black Sea and Roman Asia.

Shallow oil lamp with short nozzle flanked by volute scrolls, with an impressed band of leaves around the discus. 48.7 grams, 83 mm



From the collection of a Yorkshire, UK gentleman, items collected in the Holy Land in the 1960s.

Composed of polychrome tesserae arranged as concentric circles flanked by a rectangular border. 310 grams, 88.2 mm



From the private collection of Mr Brian Edwards, New Malden, Surrey, UK, formed from the late 1970s-early 1980s; thence by descent. Accompanied by the original collector's data sheet with reference no.A157.

D-shaped in section with pierced lug at one end. 17.87 grams, 49.21 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Comprising a rectangular-section point with a balustered bronze finial with an eraser. 10.39 grams, 13.5 cm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.